ADJOINING REALM
FIRST DAY

After the woman called Si Mbok fussed and dragged the body that was being inhabited by Darto, he again left Darto alone in his room. But before he left his son, Darto had advised if he wanted to fast tomorrow, and the woman was willing to wake her child before dawn.

'What's this test? why do I enter this body? what does my ancestor want?' muttered Darto while laying his body on the cot. occasionally he tried to use the energy in his right hand, until a white light began to radiate from his palm.

Every now and then Darto smiled at the light that shone in his hands, though dim but Darto was relieved he could still control it.

When overwhelmed by confusion, Darto again remembered Si Mbok's remarks about Wajana and Sastro. Darto hurried to sit cross-legged, then closed his eyes while continuing to pray. Shortly thereafter Darto whispered the names of the two figures, and again Darto was swept away in a dark world that he could have come at any time in his original life.

"What's up, my friend?" said the figure of the middle-aged man inside the darkness. He kept on approaching with his glowing body.

"Did you call me? have you changed your mind and want to teach me science?" said the young man wearing royal clothes, his body shining, he also came from the same direction as the middle-aged man.

Darto just silenced, did not answer anything, while continuing to frown on his face. He was a little confused to see two figures who were not foreign to him, but their forms were completely different from the figures he had always seen in his life.

"Wajanas? The sastro?" said Darto while pointing one by one the two men.

Seeing the confused Darto, Sastro and Wajana were also confused, they looked at each other, their views met, before finally looking back at Darto.

"You hit his head? Kang?" said Wajana while approaching and holding the head of Darto.

"No! just feel funny, here I don't need to call you Grandpa, ha ha ha ha!" said Darto while laughing, after seeing the form of both Grandpa was still so young.

Hearing Darto's words, the two figures were again overwhelmed with confusion, they were really surprised by the behavior of the boy he was meeting.

"Have you?! I'm just a prank on you guys, how? any progress?" darto said immediately, Darto provoked talks with them, and pretended to be familiar so they did not suspect.

"Not Dar, even I've walked far away from where you last fell, but still I have not found the waterfall you asked for" said Sastro while stroking his unbearded chin.

"I also have not found out, maybe the girl was destined to be like that until she died, Kang," said Wajana.

Darto again frowned on his face, he was amazed by the call that Sastro and Wajana gave, why they called him 'Dar' actually what the name of this child, he said, and why also Wajana called the person younger than him with the name 'Kang '. Not to mention, who the girl they were referring to was, and what waterfall was this kid looking for.

"Yes, you can go then, I want to go to sleep. Assalamualaikum" said Darto then left the dark world.

"Isa'alaikumsalam?!" say them simultaneously with standing position next to. They did not move, fixated to see the back of Darto who gradually moved away from that world.

Slowly Darto's eyes closed, the body he stopped by really felt weak after returning to the world. It was only natural for the size of the boy who had been able to enter into the world that was located between the magical and real world it must have been very draining of his energy. Darto finally fell asleep, very soundly that night he fell asleep, so that he did not feel a hand patted gently his shoulder.

"Dar?! Darsa...?!" said Si Mbok while patting the child's body slowly. He tried to wake up his son, as he had entered the time to do sahur.

"Yes? who yeah? uh... Mum-but?" said Darto again confused, he really has not been used to seeing everything he witnessed before him. He is now being forced to live as someone else, so it is only natural that after falling asleep he returns to the confusion of witnessing a reality that feels like a dream.

"What dream are you, Le? Cook until you forget about Si Mbok?! let's go sahur! almost four and a half hours" said Si Mbok while looking at the pocket watch with a chain wrapped around his hand.

"Jih, Mbok. Dar...." said Darto paused for a moment.remember the call that Si Mbok had given when waking him. "Darsa salat tahajud first," continued Darto after successfully remembering his name.

"Si Mbok wait in the kitchen, yes, Le," he said then left Darto alone in the room.

Seeing Si Mbok leave, Darto also left his room, and headed straight for the crock, filling the small jug beside him with water from the jug to the brim, and then tilting the jug so that the water poured into the ground. Lekas Darto berwudhu and then perform tahajud prayers after returning to his room.

"I'm sorry, Le. Mr. Bekum also returned, so we use cassava first, huh?" said Si Mbok slightly lowered his head, seeing the menu available on the mat is just boiled cassava and one green chipped sambal.

"This alone is delicious, Mbok," said Darto smiling and sitting right next to his mother.

The two of them greedily ate the piece for the sake of a piece of warm boiled cassava that was still puffing smoke in front of them, ending with a glass of water, finished with a glass of water, then they raised their hands and read the intention to fast together.

After Sahur finished, Darto returned to his room, he could only continue to daydream because he was still confused by the exam he was facing. Darto was completely immersed in daydreaming until suddenly Si Mbok called from next to his room.

"Come on Le, put on your clothes! it's dawn?!" shouted Si Mbok while peeking into the room that Darto was wearing.

In response to Si Mbok's invitation, Darto immediately grabbed the clothes hanging in his room bamboo booth, he slightly ran after Si Mbok who was waiting at the door of the house. Then they walked to the saung.

Arriving at the saung, Darto was a little surprised because the saung was full of residents who were quite crowded, even the rows of shaf almost filled the entire floor of the saung made like a stage house.

After the completion of the prayer, Darto and Si Mbok returned to his home, but Darto stopped when he saw a bearded man with a turban over his head standing in front of his door. He smiled as he looked at Darto and his Si Mbok, then waved his hand.

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